## 1919
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## TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN
Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front
July 18, 1919

Your request will be discussed by the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. Sklyansky says that if we are to take more from the Eastern Front, then it should go to the Southern Front. Tomorrow the head of the Political Administration will arrive and the Commander-in-Chief from the Southern Front.

Lenin

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## RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
JULY 18, 1919

In order to ensure the fullest possible preservation of secrecy regarding matters of military supply for our army and the related activities of factories, institutions, and establishments producing such supplies—

The Council of Defense resolves:

Inspection of all kinds of institutions, establishments, and factories producing military supplies for the Red Army, whatever the purpose and by whose order such inspection is conducted, shall be permitted exclusively only by special authorizations issued over the signature of the Chairman of the Council of Defense, or the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, or his deputy, or the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary for Supply. All such mandates must be registered without exception with the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the Council of Defense.

An exception is permitted only for local labor inspectors, whose mandates must be certified by the local gubernatorial executive committee.

Chairman of the Council of Defense

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.*

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## LENIN COLLECTION

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## TELEGRAM TO THE EXTRAORDINARY POLITICAL COMMITTEE
OF THE IZHEVSK FACTORY
SARAPUL AND IZHEVSK DISTRICT MILITARY COMMITTEES*

July 18, 1919

The Council of Defense resolved on July 18: the mobilization of workers at the Izhevsk factory is hereby canceled.

Chairman of the Council of Defense

Lenin

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## DIRECTIVE TO THE SECRETARIAT OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
July 19, 1919

The delay in ratifying the instruction concerning food requisitions from the army represents the most outrageous and intolerable manifestation of red tape.

It is necessary to establish those responsible and to investigate this matter thoroughly, firstly, to establish accountability, and secondly—and this is the main point—to develop practical measures so that such occurrences cannot be repeated.

Therefore I propose that the institutions named below, which should have taken care to ensure the speediest implementation of the law on food requisitions—that is, its realization in practice—

Immediately investigate with all strictness and precision, having gathered all documents and interrogated all persons connected with this matter, the causes of red tape, and present their report jointly with proposals for practical measures to eliminate red tape to the Council of People's Commissars on Tuesday.

The institutions are as follows:

Secretariat of the Council of People's Commissars and the Council of Defense
Central Committee for Food Supply and Army Supply
Committee for Food Supply
Commissariat of War
Commissariat of Posts and Telegraph

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

* Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin. The addition to the address: "Sarapul and Izhevsk district military committees"—was made in his own hand.